“International anti-Americanism has also been encountered by Mark Steyn and others who have begun distilling it. International anti-Americanism is rooted in either elitist secular Marxist/Socialism or in elitist religious Islamo-Fascism. International anti-Americanism is rooted in one of the collectivist ideals for humanity rather than good old American individualism; and American individualism is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights which contain ideas which are anathema to both elite collectivist Marxist/Socialism and elite collectivist Islamo-Fascism.” – Storm Rider

The best description of who these people are (people like Naomi Klein)and what their project is. This is who they are and I know this well because I used to be one of them. Not so much of the activist kind was I, but more of the bookish Jesuit types who was studying and researching to see if there was a way to get around the best critiques of socialism coming from people like Michael Novak and Willian Buckley, Jr. When I found that human nature is irrevocably incompatible with the utopian teleology of various forms of collectivist/statist thought, I gave it up and began moving in the other direction.

I do not know of any recent attempts by Leftist intellectuals to scientifically take apart anti-utopian thought. Certainly no successful attempts. And what is startling is that there seems to be so little interest over there to take the best critiques of socialism seriously. As a naturally curious person, I simply do not understand the evolving anti-intellectual nature of the Left. Surely there must be some bright people over there who are capable of self-criticism and can take on the other side’s best shots? Or, could it be that there is no further evolution of socialist thought beyond the Frankfurt School thinkers, and that now the Left’s various permutations of the Marxist corpus have ossified into a pure faith?